”Don’t be sick with anything” is a phrase we often talk about, a person who is sick is often a family ordeal, especially for patients and families of chronic and malignant diseases, the mood is not good. So, how do we as family members respond to a sick family member? And what can we do to really help him or her recover? This article is a lesson for families on how we should take care of patients. 1. Families should be familiar with the patient’s condition, clear about the patient’s illness and its current status, to provide the basis for the doctor’s diagnosis and treatment. When there is a change in the condition of the disease, you should go to the hospital and communicate with the doctor in a timely manner to avoid blind medication treatment. If you don’t want the patient to know the truth, the family can communicate with the doctor first. 2, supervision of medication, regular review Patients sometimes do not fully understand the severity of their own condition, often feel that their health is not bad, do not need to take medication; or because of other things forget to take medication; or because of the young do not know how to follow medical advice medication, etc., which requires family members to promptly urge patients to follow medical advice medication, in order to cooperate with the doctor’s treatment as soon as possible to achieve improvement or cure. Many patients with chronic diseases need regular review to monitor the progress of the disease and understand the effect of treatment, as family members need to remind and supervise the patient at any time to review, so as not to affect the treatment and efficacy. 3, avoid frequent visits A person is sick, the whole family is anxious, friends and relatives to visit is unavoidable. However, some patients have poor immunity when they are sick, too frequent visits will bring a lot of bacteria, the patient is prone to infection, which can easily cause the disease to recur and even aggravate the disease. At the same time, if the patient’s condition is heavy, too frequent visits will make the patient too tired and tired, for the health of the patient, some hospitality is to refuse. 4, reasonable schedule, regular life More knowledge about the disease, neither baseless interference with the patient’s diet and daily life, nor unconditionally meet any needs because of illness, or to advocate regular healthy rest. 5, appropriate chat, relieve the psychological pressure People will always be affected when they are sick, and some people may even refuse treatment. As family members to help patients to relieve psychological pressure, adjust the mindset. It is important to note that when communicating with patients must adjust their emotions, do not pass their bad mood to the patient. 6, appropriate exercise In the case of the patient’s physical condition allows, the patient should be allowed to exercise properly to enhance physical fitness. If the condition does not allow, the patient should also be reminded to rest and avoid exertion. 7, dietary care The disease is different, there are also many dietary restrictions, there are often patients love to eat can not eat, do not love to eat must eat the situation. As a family member, try to meet the patient’s requirements as long as the patient’s condition allows, and increase nutrition appropriately, and at the same time, for the food recommended by the doctor to help the recovery of the disease, it should also be properly and reasonably matched. When people are sick, they will inevitably have negative, depressive, irritable and other bad emotions, as family members need to learn how to take care of the patient, but also need to understand more, more to help the patient together to fight the disease, together out of the gloom of the disease.